About Stachys pycnantha Benth.
Stachys pycnantha Benth. is a species of flowering plant in the mint family, commonly called shortspike hedgenettle. It is native to California, where it grows across many types of mountain and foothill habitats. This plant produces several stems that usually grow to over 60 centimeters tall. It is hairy, glandular, and very aromatic. Its leaves have lance-shaped or oval blades attached to short petioles. The inflorescence is most often a single cluster, or an interrupted series of a few clusters, with up to 12 flowers in each cluster. The tubular corolla grows up to one centimeter long, and ranges in color from white to pink. The flower sits inside a hairy calyx made of sepals.
